419 scam: "Benny Dixon"<cindy@cgracephoto.com> REGARDING YOUR FUND WITH US

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Benny Dixon" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bennydixon1960@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:17:49 +0100
Subject: REGARDING YOUR FUND WITH US

Attention Beneficiary,

I am a united state diplomat working in a foreign remittance department with a bank here in India, I discovered an abandoned sum of money in your name with your information in our department and there is a mandate for you to claim the fund or the said fund will be transfered to world bank account as an unclaimed fund.

As the newly apointed head of the foreign remittance department, I have the power to instruct the bank to release this fund to you, According to your file here, The origin of the fund is of the beneficiary inheritance fund and many banks and organisations have tried to transfer the fund to you but fail because they don't have the liecence from the world bank to transfer inheritance beneficiary fund, On the process they try to follow the wrong way in transfering and international bodies like FBI,IMF etc always put a stop to the transfer.

The fund was finally returned to this Asia bank in India and you as the owner have been waiting to contact the bank for claim, But nothing have been heard of you since then.

Your fund is currently deposited in an escrow account here.

Many people/Organisation and banks might still be contacting you about the transfer of this fund, But i tell you this people don't even know the location of the fund for now,

Can you please give me a call on my mobile so that we can discuss on how this fund can be released to you.

Mr. Benny Dixon
Mobile:+918447409447

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